Ankokuji Yakushi Kama

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Ankokuji 安国寺 Ankoku-Ji, Kama
白馬山 Hakubazan 安国寺 Ankokuji

福岡県嘉麻市下山田288 / Fukuoka, Kama city, Shimoyamada

The main statue is 千手観世音菩薩 Senju Kannon Bosatsu.
and a statue of
白衣観音 Byaku-E Kannon with white robes.

. Kannon Bosatsu 観音菩薩 Avalokiteshvara .
Statue of a seated Kannon Bosatsu, made from hinoki 桧 Japanese cypress.
The statue is 49, 5 cm high.
It was made in the Muromachi period (1336 - 1573).
It had been repaired in 1697.
When 足利尊氏 Ashikaga Takauji had lost a battle and was fleeing to the mountains,
he passed Shimoyamada and prayed to Yakushi at this temple.
. Ashikaga Takauji 足利尊氏 (1305 – 1358) .
Takauji also had the statue of 白衣観音 Byaku-E Kannon placed in the temple.
In 1970, the statue was declared 福岡県指定有形文化財 a designated tangible cultural property of Fukuoka.

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The temple was built in 1993 on request of Ashikaga Takauji 足利尊氏 and 足利直義 Ashikaga Tadayoshi
to pray for the souls lost during the upheavel of the Northern and Southern Dynasties （1337 - 1392.）
The temple was lost during fightings in 1444 and rebuilt in the Taisho Period (1912 - 1926).

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Just a block from Ark Hotel Royal in the busy streets of Tenjin,
near the nightlife of Oyafuko-dori, lies Ankokuji Zen Temple.
Originally located in Nakatsu in Oita, the temple was moved to Fukuoka City
when the feudal lord expanded his territory.
This temple is mostly known for the tomb of the legendary ‘candy-buying ghost’ and
the largest bell of all temples in the city.
Visit Ankokuji and not only will you be able to check out these two attractions,
but you will also feel calm and soothed in the middle of the city.
- source : en.japantravel.com/fukuoka ...

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shuin　朱印 stamp

In the compound is the grave of a local Sumo wrestler, 不知火光五郎 Shiranui Kogoro .

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- - - - - Homepage of the temple
- source : oyakushi.com/jiin ...
- reference source : nippon-reijo.jimdofree ... -

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This temple is Nr. 03 of the pilgrimage
. 49 Yakushi Temples in Kyushu 九州四十九薬師霊場 .

. 薬師如来 Yakushi Nyorai Bhaisajyaguru .
the Buddha of Medicine and Healing

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. Japanese Legends - 伝説　民話　昔話 – ABC-List .


....................................................................... Nagano 長野県　
茅野市 Chino city / 泰平山 Taiheizan 安国禅寺 Ankoku Zenji

mujina 狢
Once late at night there was a knock at the gate of 安国寺 the Temple Ankoku-Ji.
When the priest opened, there was nobody.
But the same thing now happened every night.
One night the priest was fast to open the door and saw a mujina 狢 tanuki jump over the roof.
. tanuki 狸 - mujina 狢 － racoon dog, badger legends .

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木曽町 Kiso town

kitsune 狐 fox， 蛻庵稲荷 Setsuan Inari
A fox shape-shifted into a samurai and called himseld 蛻庵 Setsuan.
He said he was a messenger from Suwa Shrine.
He was soon found out.
He was now taken in at 興禅寺 Temple Kozen-Ji and fed.
When he was on an errand to 安国寺 the Temple Ankoku-Ji he was shot.
Soon there was an epidemy in the area and people said it was the curse of the fox.
People then venerated the fox an the tmeple Kozen-Ji as 蛻庵稲荷 Setsuan Inari.

. kitsune densetsu 狐と伝説 fox legends .
setsu 蛻 the cast-off skin of a serpent.

蛻庵稲荷 セツアンイナリ Setsuan Inari Shrine

source : facebook.com ...

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- reference : Nichibun Yokai Database -

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